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Abstract—In order to ensure that the Thyristor Control Unit After the thyristor level is put into operation, the operating
(TCU) of the HVDC converter valve works normally in the condition of TCUs is severe due to the electromagnetic
electromagnetic environment, this paper analyzes the sources of disturbance in the valve hall. Component damage caused by
various electromagnetic disturbances in the valve hall of the overcurrent and overvoltage often occurs on TCUs, which
converter valve. Then the TCU is placed in different could result in abnormal phenomena such as IP loss, IP
electromagnetic environments for simulation to observe the oscillation, and gate pulse loss.
characteristics of its key components. Based on them, a
regression-analysis-based TCU failure warning method in Sometimes the TCU may have a latent failure, in which
electromagnetic environment is proposed, which could deduce case the internal devices of the TCU have failed but it still
the trend of failure occurrence by constructing abnormal remains operational, and the problem can only be exposed
information vectors. This method considers the mode of failure when external disturbances occur [7-8]. In this regard, the
and the time of early warning, and issue an early warning at an traditional detection method is no longer applicable, and a
appropriate time. With changes in the electromagnetic reliable early warning method is urgently needed to let the
environment, the failure mode library will be continuously system issue early warning before the TCU fails, so that
expanded. The calculation shows that the method in this paper maintenance can be completed in sufficient time.
can well pre-warn the failure of TCUs in the electromagnetic
environment, and its prediction accuracy is as high as 86%, Based on it, we analyze the source of electromagnetic
which is superior to the traditional method. disturbance in the valve hall of the converter valve. Next, the
circuit board is simulated under the effect of electromagnetic
Keywords—TCU; Electromagnetic Disturbance; Regression disturbance to observe the changing characteristics of key
Analysis; Threshold components in the electromagnetic environment. According
to it, a regression-analysis-based TCU failure warning method
I. INTRODUCTION
in electromagnetic environment is proposed. This method
High-voltage direct current (HVDC) is an important divides the failure of TCUs into several modes, and
technology to solve the problem of high-voltage, large- continuously expands new unknown modes into them, so that
capacity, long-distance transmission and grid interconnection the system can issue danger warning when the TCU is about
in the world. Compared with traditional converter stations, to fail. The calculation shows that this method predicts the
there are more primary and secondary equipment in HVDC failure of TCUs in the electromagnetic environment well,
converter stations. Many sources of electromagnetic which can maintain good prediction accuracy even when the
disturbance exist in the HVDC converter station, and the failure mode is poor or the new mode is unknown. This
electromagnetic environment is much worse. These factors method provides support for the maintenance of the thyristor
seriously affect the normal operation of valve control systems, level.
and may even cause failure of converter valves [1-4].
II. SOURCES OF ELECTROMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE
The valve control system is mainly composed of four parts:
Thyristor Control Unit (TCU), Valve Control Unit (VCU), The alternating electromagnetic field generated by the
Thyristor Monitoring Unit (THM), and optical fiber electromagnetic disturbance source can be divided into two
transmission equipment. Among them, the TCU is fixed on parts: radiation field and induction field. The energy of the
the radiator at the cathode side of the thyristor, responsible for radiation field is separated from the radiator and emitted
triggering and monitoring the thyristor. Due to many sources outward in the form of electromagnetic waves, while the
of electromagnetic disturbance inside the valve tower, and the energy of the induction field flows back and forth between the
TCU is a direct device that triggers the thyristor, so TCUs radiation source and the radiation source, which is not emitted
failure often occurs, leading to abnormal operation of the outward [9-11].
converter valve and even failure of the entire power For easy differentiation, the field is generally divided into
conversion system [5-6]. the far field (radiation field) and the near field (induction field)
according to the relationship between the field source
Research supported by the Science and Technology Project of wavelength λ and the distance r. The area of r >> λ is called
Research on Aging Evaluation and Integrated Detection Technology of
UHVDC Transmission Converter Valve and Valve Control Equipment.
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the far field, and the area of r << λ is the near field. The other B Magnetic field distribution diagram
differences between them are shown in Table 1. Fig. 1. Distribution of electric field strength and magnetic field strength
of TCU at 50MHz
TABLE I. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FAR FIELD AND NEAR
FIELD According to the distribution diagram of electric field
strength and magnetic field strength in Figure 1, it can be
Relationship found that the electric field strength is large at the left and right
Rate between
Name
Electromagnetic
of
Degree of
Electric and ends of the board, at the line, and at some chips, while the
Field Intensity Irregularity magnetic field strength is large at the power supply line and
Decay Magnetic
Fields some flip-flop circuits, so they are more susceptible to
Far
Small Low Small Vertical electromagnetic disturbance. Set up voltage monitors at six
Field places, including voltage comparator U2, double JK flip-flop
Near No clear
Big Fast Big U7, monostable trigger U13, transistor T44, transistor D60
Field relationship
and power supply port, to monitor the induced voltage
Far-field disturbance mainly comes from the operation of
changes. Current monitors are set up on the power supply line
some primary equipment and wireless equipment near the
and the flip-flop circuit to monitor the changes in the induced
converter station [12-14], such as communication base
current. The positions of the above eight monitors correspond
stations and broadcasting stations. The amplitude of this
to 1-8 in Figure. 2 in sequence.
electromagnetic disturbance is relatively small, but the
propagation distance is long, the speed is fast, and the
frequency is high, which may affect the operation of the TCU.
Near-field disturbance mainly comes from the turn-on or
turn-off of nearby thyristors and the operation of some
primary equipment. Compared with far-field disturbance,
near-field disturbance has lower frequency, faster attenuation,
larger amplitude, and more uneven spatial distribution.
Generally speaking, the impact of near-field disturbance on
TCU is more severe. Fig. 2. Location of the eight monitors
The electromagnetic disturbance derives from many far- The simulated time-domain waveforms of induced voltage
field and near-field sources inside and outside the valve hall. and induced current are shown in Figure 3.
In order to analyze the effect of electromagnetic disturbances
in the actual environment conveniently, it is necessary to study
the characteristics of a TCU under a single far-field
disturbance source and a single near-field disturbance source.
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used equivalently [16-17]. The pair of dipole antennas used in sn [v1n , vn2 , Ă, vnj , Ă, vnJ ] (1)
this section is composed of two PEC cylinders with a gap of 2
mm in the middle. By adding a port in the gap, a Gaussian where, sn is the vector corresponding to the nth exception
pulse with an amplitude of 1 is used to simulate an antenna information, characterizing the current state of the TCU at that
radiating electromagnetic fields outward. moment.
Set the same monitor on the board as in the far-field Observing that the jth variable of sn, vnj is the sum of gkj,
simulation, and the resulting time-domain waveform is shown which is the new exception count of the variable in each error
in Figure 4. log. sn can be written as
n n n n
From the time-domain waveform diagram, the maximum
absolute value of induced voltage and induced current caused sn [¦ g 1k , ¦ g k2 ,Ă, ¦ g kj , Ă, ¦ g kJ ] (2)
by near-field disturbance is far greater than far-field k 1 k 1 k 1 k 1
disturbance, and the largest transistor induced voltage reaches The probability of TCU failure in this state, i.e. the failure
0.188V. Another difference from the far-field result is that probability, can be calculated from the exception information,
when the TCU is disturbed by the near field, the induced taking value in [0,1]. 0 means that the TCU is running
voltage and induced current decay quickly and the number of normally in this state, while 1 means that the TCU has failed.
oscillation is very small, which is also consistent with the
However, in the actual operation process, the TCU is
characteristics of rapid attenuation in the near field.
subject to complex sources of electromagnetic disturbance
According to the simulation of the far field and the near and has a variety of forms, which makes the process of failure
field, the following conclusions can be drawn: whether it is not unique. For example, some failures are caused by
near field disturbance or far field disturbance, the induced excessive voltage fluctuations on the pin of the chip, while
voltage and current of the device on the TCU will oscillate. others are caused by breakdown due to excessive reverse
But for different disturbances, the decay rate is different. voltage of the triode.
When the TCU is working normally, each device has a normal
Although the same failure result will be produced, the
working range. Once its amplitude exceeds its normal
exception information is different due to the different failure
working range, it can be considered that the TCU is affected
processes. Therefore, the concept of failure mode is
by strong electromagnetic disturbance and may be invalid.
introduced to treat the failure caused by different components
Therefore, the voltage or current of the key components of the
exceptions as different failure modes. The failure probability
TCU is monitored in real time, and the obtained information
is then divided into several failure mode probabilities, which
is processed by a method based on regression analysis to
is defined as follows:
achieve the goal of early warning of TCU failure status.
e( n )
hnm * class(m) (3)
e( N )
where, e(n) is the number of exceptions when the nth
exception information is recorded, e(N) denotes the total
number of exceptions when the TCU fails, m denotes the
failure mode, and class(m) is 1 or 0, indicating that the failure
belongs to failure mode m or not respectively. ݄ is the
eventuality of failure mode m. The closer ݄ is to 1, the closer
A Induced Voltage B Induced Current
the TCU is to the time of failure.
Fig. 4. Time-domain waveforms under near-field disturbance Subsequently, a failure detector is constructed, and
corresponding failure modes are distinguished based on real-
IV. TCU FAILURE WARNING METHOD BASED ON time abnormal information during the operation of TCUs.
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
Assume that TCU is in the running state, the exception
A. Failure detector logs {p1, p2, Ă , pn} are recorded at time {t1, t2, Ă , tn}
The on-line monitoring technology of the printed circuit respectively, and stored in the database which containing all
board can collect voltage and current information of the key the information about each TCU exception and the failure
components of TCUs in real time, which reflects working modes identified by the system automatically. These data are
condition of the printed circuit board. Thus, in the then used for regression analysis, including the following
electromagnetic environment, the situation and failure trend steps:
of the TCU can be judged. Step 1: Extract known failure mode {m1, m2, Ă, mM},
The voltage or current of the selected parts is monitored where each failure mode occurs at least once in the historical
throughout the system. When the voltage or current amplitude runs.
of an element exceeds its normal operating range, the element Step 2: Extract the information from exception logs,
is identified as having an exception, and the number of new construct the exception information vector sn, and the failure
exceptions added during that time is recorded in the exception mode probability can be calculated.
log.
Step 3: For known failure modes, a ሺ ܬ ͳሻ ൈ ܰmatrix X
The exception information of the system at this time can and failure mode probability column vector Ym are formed.
be obtained from the historical exception log, noted by a one- Where J is the number of variables in each exception
dimensional vector sn. information vector, and N is the number of exception
information vectors.
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